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A fight between three leading class action firms over who will lead a potentially lucrative shareholder class action against construction giant Boral is back on, after the High Court pressed go on class action beauty parades.
ASIC has fired back at iSignthis' defence to the regulator's claims that it violated the Corporations Act by not disclosing $3 million in one-off revenue related to integration agreements, saying it was not the job of its compliance officials to school the fintech on its disclosure obligations.
A Sydney solicitor has won an extension of time to file a defamation case against Network Ten after an appeals court found he had valid reason for not bringing the case by the one-year deadline -- fighting criminal charges that were eventually dropped.
A judge has criticised the “clearly strategic” moves by Qantas and former senior executive Nick Rohrlach in their fight over whose lawsuit should resolve a dispute about the terms of his defection to competitor Virgin Australia.
ASIC has launched its first case related to the COVID-19 pandemic, targeting personal lender ClearLoans for allegedly contravening the hardship provisions of the credit laws that resulted in "significant consumer harm".
Victorian public healthcare provider Peninsula Health has been hit with a class action brought by junior doctors who claim they were deliberately unpaid despite working a significant amount of overtime each week.
The High Court has rejected special leave applications by mining magnate Gina Rinehart to appeal a ruling which only partially stayed a legal dispute over ownership rights and royalties relating to the Rinehart family-owned Hope Downs iron ore mine, with one judge calling the mining magnate's arguments a "tortured articulation" and "very odd".
Women's activewear company Lorna Jane has defended ACCC allegations that it represented to consumers during that height of the coronavirus pandemic that its activewear would protect them from viruses including COVID-19, saying it had a reasonable and proper basis for making the claims.
A judge has refused to grant a further "indulgence" to Melbourne-based construction company Maxcon in a settled dispute with a barristers chambers, finding justice was better served by putting an end to the case despite on ongoing costs dispute.
The law firm behind a long-running class action over the 2011 floods in Queensland which reached a $440 million partial settlement last month has estimated that its legal bill to date totals around $60 million.